{"id":1291,"date":"2021-03-02T20:14:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T20:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dft.wiki\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:37:13","slug":"snmp-in-cisco-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dft.wiki\/?p=1291","title":{"rendered":"SNMP and SYSLOG on Cisco Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enabling <strong>SNMP<\/strong>v2c on a Cisco Router, for example:<\/p>\n<pre>enable\r\nconfigure terminal\r\nsnmp-server community PASSWORD_STRING ro\r\nsnmp-server community PASSWORD_STRING rw<\/pre>\n<p>You can then use any tool to monitor and manage your device, such as ManageEngine MibBrowser Free Tool [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manageengine.com\/products\/mibbrowser-free-tool\/\">Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>For monitoring applications, popular options include OpenNMS [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opennms.com\/\">Link<\/a>], Zabbix [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zabbix.com\/\">Link<\/a>], Nagios [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nagios.org\/\">Link<\/a>], SolarWinds, Airwave, PRTG, and others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SYSLOG<\/strong> centralizes log collection from network devices into a single server.<\/p>\n<p>After setting up a Syslog server (for example, Kiwi Syslog Server Free Edition by SolarWinds [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiwisyslog.com\/free-tools\/kiwi-free-syslog-server\">Link<\/a>]), configure your network devices to send log information to it:<\/p>\n<pre>enable\r\nclock set 13:45:00 02 Mar 2021\r\nconfigure terminal\r\nservice timestamps log datetime msec\r\nlogging 10.0.0.254\r\nlogging trap informational<\/pre>\n<p>Setting the clock first is good practice, as incorrect timestamps can make log debugging confusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enabling SNMPv2c on a Cisco Router, for example: enable configure terminal snmp-server community PASSWORD_STRING ro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ccna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dft.wiki\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dft.wiki\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dft.wiki\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dft.wiki\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dft.wiki\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dft.wiki\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5777,"href":"https:\/\/dft.wiki\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/5777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dft.wiki\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dft.wiki\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dft.wiki\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}